You didn't show any code, example input, or expected output. You did say "I program for a corporation and its all propriety", but that doesn't prevent you from constructing a simple SSCCE that reproduces the issue. I had to build one myself, and only did that because I happened to be curious. I was able to reproduce the issue you described with XML::XSLT. Note that the latest non-developer release is now about 14 years old and the developer release 0.50_5 is ~5 years old.

I would recommend switching to XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT, where the variables seem to work as expected.

use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::LibXSLT;
use XML::LibXML;

my $source = XML::LibXML->load_xml( string => <<'END_XML' );
<foo>
    <x one="Foo" two="Bar" />
    <x one="Quz" two="Quz" />
</foo>
END_XML

my $style_doc = XML::LibXML->load_xml(
    string => <<'END_XSLT', no_cdata => 1 );
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<bar>
    <xsl:for-each select="foo/x">
        <xsl:variable name="name1" select="@one" />
        <xsl:variable name="name2" select="@two" />
        <xsl:if test="$name1 = $name2">
            <y><xsl:value-of select="@one"/></y>
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>
</bar>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
END_XSLT

my $xslt = XML::LibXSLT->new();
my $stylesheet = $xslt->parse_stylesheet($style_doc);
my $results = $stylesheet->transform($source);
print $stylesheet->output_as_bytes($results);

__END__

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<bar><y>Quz</y></bar>

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In reply to Re: XML::XSLT v 50_5 error with xsl variables by haukex
in thread XML::XSLT v 50_5 error with xsl variables by misterperl

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